Partner Joshua Berman Quoted in USA Today on Barry Bonds Trial

Joshua Berman, a partner in the firm's White Collar Criminal and Civil Litigation and Compliance Practice and a former federal prosecutor, was quoted in two articles in USA Today on Barry Bonds's perjury trial. Greg Anderson, the slugger's former personal trainer and longtime friend, refused to testify in the trial before the U.S. district court. "Perhaps the government hoped Anderson would give it a [ninth-inning] walk-off home run in game one," Mr. Berman says. "But it is Bonds and his team that have won and set the tone that this series may go the distance." ("Barry Bonds' trainer refuses to testify, taken into custody," March 22, 2011)

In another article on the Bonds trial, Mr. Berman remarks that the timing is less than ideal for Major League Baseball. "The congressional hearings (in 2005) and hollow denials were the low point, and MLB had hoped to put this behind it," he says. "However, this trial drags the public back to the reality of the steroid use of the last decades just as opening day approaches." ("Bonds trial: Prosecutors, defense make points in Week 1," March 25, 2011)